So tonight I watched SIX PACK ANNIE, a rather inane but touched 70's southern comedy, which turns to complete gold in every scene involving an incredibly drunk Texan, whose performance I enjoyed so much that I made a point to look him up. It turned out to be Richard Kennedy. Cross-referencing, I discovered that he was also billed as Edward Roehm some times, and was credited as such in THE LOVE BUTCHER, which I saw a month ago and in which he gives another transcendent performance as a perpetually angry police detective.

So: If there are any fans of Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Roehm or whoever he is, I'm pretty confident they'd be somewhere near this board, and I'd love to hear more about what other films he's in that you'd recommend, any back story, etc. Googling provided little obvious information, but I can't imagine there's not a story with this guy.

And as an aside: whoever wrote this review of SIX PACK ANNIE has an amazing dry sense of humor.

I don't like SIXPACK ANNIE too much, though the suggestive 1-sheet is great. Filled with cornpone humor, mildly risqué sex gags and barely enough skin to garner an R rating, SIXPACK is too amiable to hate, but too silly and tame to get excited about either. Kennedy is memorable, I guess, because he's so damn broad, but most of the supporting cast is, filled as it is with sixty-year-old scene-stealers from early Hollywood like Joe Higgins (as a sheriff), Richard Kennedy, Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales, Stubby Kaye, Doodles Weaver and Sid Melton. Ray Danton and a pre-Scarecrow Bruce Boxleitner are in it too.